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California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Work on search team

Mountain View, CA

• Created oldfavenewplace.com, a search engine to find restaurants near you similar to places you likeelsewhere
• Scraped and parsed information about restaurants from Yelp in Python using BeautifulSoup and stored results in MySQL
• Built logistic regression and document similarity models to identify similar restaurants between twogeographic locations based on Yelp characteristics and word frequency in user reviews using scikit-learn
• Designed and deployed website on Amazon… Show more
• Designed and deployed website on Amazon Web Services using Javascript, Flask, and Python Show less

Los Angeles, CA

• Performed statistical analysis on petabytes of data from the Large Hadron Collider using distributedcomputing in C++, Python, and ROOT
• Devised innovative methods to model and improve performance of the system by more than a factor of two
• Automated measurement of the system synchronization, including ability to monitor continuously
• Searched for the rare production of a new fundamental particle amid the trillions of collisions that occurredat the Large Hadron… Show more
• Searched for the rare production of a new fundamental particle amid the trillions of collisions that occurredat the Large Hadron Collider
• Developed model to predict number of particles from cosmic-rays producing signal-like signatures Show less

Los Angeles, CA

Teaching Assistant for two classesAdvanced undergraduate particle physics laboratory course. Oversaw 16 students working on four different labs. Responsible for helping students understand detector hardware, readout electronics, and analysis of dataLed three discussion sections of 40 students each for physics for life science majors focusing on mechanics..

Santa Monica, CA

• Analyzed data from social media sources to better understand traffic about clients' products using Python
• Devised creative method to collect training set of users with known demographic information through public social media posts for use in developing models
• Implemented Naïve Bayes model to infer gender of users from single tweet at 85% accuracy using scikit-learn
• Created database infrastructure from scratch for storing social media data with Redis

Gainesville, FL

Worked on the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider--Studied muon fake rate with regard to the Higgs Boson decay (ZZ-->2muon)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Physics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Physics

Minor Business Administration